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Course Description

Building a company? Learn how SMART entrepreneurs raise the RIGHT type of capital FAST.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Lili Balfour has advised over 100 companies, who have gone on to raise over $200 million from investors around the world. She is the author of Master the Finance Game, a Wall Street Journal Guest Mentor, a contributor at Fox Business News, a blogger for The Huffington Post, a guest contributor for HuffPost Live and a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley.

ABOUT THE COURSE

Learn everything you need to know to grow revenue, to increase profitability, and to secure capital for $197. This course includes a downloadable financial model and cap table with step-by-step instructions, as well as a list of active investors who have recently raised funds.

STUDENT REVIEWS

“I've previously spent more than a thousand bucks on business financial consultations which didn't even explain 10% of what this course covers in less than two hours. You get to know real life metrics and milestones that your company must achieve to survive and prosper.” Oleg

“A must for start ups. This is the first course I finished on Udemy! This course covers a lot and Lili was able to condense it to the essential, important things everyone going into a start up should know. A very big bonus is the downloadable excel spreadsheet that contains pretty much everything you need to understand financially when starting a business. Highly recommend.” Mic

Instructor Biography

Lili Balfour is the founder of Atelier Advisors and author of Master the Finance Game.

Lili spent over 15 years in investment banking (technology and healthcare) and investment management before creating Atelier Advisors, a firm that provides strategic and financial advisory services to early-stage companies. To date, she has helped over 100 early-stage companies raise over $200 million.

Reviews

Lean Finance for Startups

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Shawn Arora

4 months ago

This course was disappointing. The content was at a pretty basic level, and each lecture was very short. The quizzes are a waste of time -- 1 question each with extremely obvious answers (anyone could answer them without even watching the lectures). And for some of the topics, there was just a PDF that was uploaded rather than a video lecture.

Tolu Adeoye

5 months ago

Easy to learn yet engaging for all regardless of their Financial background.

The beauty of this program is in the simplicity that the concepts are taught. Lili does a fantastic job of walking the student through the concepts at a pace that is challenging which leads to a sense of accomplishment once the course has been finished. Highly recommended to anyone looking to increase their financial expertise.

Mike Newton

6 months ago

Solid Course

Great course! Although I already knew some of the basics, the instructor goes beyond these without giving information overload and I still managed to glean a lot of useful information and resources from this course. It's a good course for beginners and intermediate level entrepreneurs. Might also be an eye opener for those who think that they are advanced too.

Kevin Cheng

a year ago

Good intro to financial statements, business metrics, and other relevant info for entrepreneurs.

The instructor does a good job of introducing us to financial statements, business metrics, the key aspects of pitching to investors and of crowdfunding, etc. Particularly useful is the downloadable financial spreadsheet containing the common statements an entrepreneur needs to understand the key drivers for their business growth. The instructor also responds very promptly to student questions. A willingness to plug in your own numbers into the spreadsheet, change them, and then see how they affect the rest of the statements would make for optimal learning.

Myron D. McPherson

a year ago

Lean Finance for Startups

Excellent course! Basic/introductory in providing information, but gave you plenty to chew on and followup on. Went beyond basics without totally flooding the student with the material. Would highly recommend this course to beginning entrepreneur.